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This is September of 2002.

The invasion of Iraq happened about March of 2003. In between were all the hearings, inspections, etc.

Trump was asked if he was for invading Iraq 6 months before it happened and he said “I....guess....so....I wish we’d done it correctly the first time..”

There was OBVIOUS reluctance in his voice. After hearing that, I’d absolutely not be surprised at all that he opposed it six months later.

Facts are terrible things.

It is a fact that Colin Powell said he was perhaps willfully given bad intel that the intell people already knew was bad intel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs

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This is as close as they can get to spinning the truth to make it sound like Trump "flip flopped".

You characterized Trump's statement correctly - it shows no real support for the second Iraq Bush war and was a statement as part of a free flowing conversation at a time when the war was not even a sure thing.

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PS: I have to add - the GOPe us trying to find some evidence that Trump was against the war - but what this shows is that the official George Bush party line that the War is a good thing is dead. Because it took political smarts and guts to stand up and decry the war in Iraq that W insisted on.

So all you people trying to attack Trump by saying he was not against the Iraq war - does that mean being against the Iraq war like Trump stated is the correct and smart position to take?

Trump's position is now the winning position and that is why they are trying to minimize it.